Whois & Analysis for medstarhealth.org

MedStar Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization.

It operates more than 120 entities, including ten hospitals in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area of the United States.

It is the employer with the largest number of local employees in that area.

The Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area is a combined statistical area consisting of the overlapping labor market region of the cities of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland.

The region includes Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, three counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, and one county in South Central Pennsylvania.

It is the most educated, highest-income, and fourth largest combined statistical area in the United States.

A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system or as healthcare system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.

A nonprofit organization (also known as a non-business entity) is an organization whose purpose is something other than making a profit.

A nonprofit organization is often dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view.

In economic terms, a nonprofit organization uses its surplus revenues to further achieve its purpose or mission, rather than distributing its surplus income to the organization's shareholders (or equivalents) as profit or dividends.

This is known as the non-distribution constraint.

The decision to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption, charitable status and so on.

Columbia is a principal city within the Baltimore metropolitan area, located in Howard County, Maryland.

It is a planned community consisting of 10 self-contained villages.

It began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life.

Creator and developer James W.

Rouse saw the new community in terms of human values, rather than merely economics and engineering.

Opened in 1967, Columbia was intended to not only eliminate the inconveniences of then-current subdivision design, but also eliminate racial, religious, and class segregation.